Thank you for the blog post and showing me the G-test formula.

After going through your blog post, I still have some open questions: You introduce k_11 to k_22, but I don't understand what "k" itself actually stands for in your formular and how the sums are defined: LLR = 2 sum(k) (H(k) - H(rowSums(k)) - H(colSums(k)))

Am 09.05.2011 02:46, schrieb Ted Dunning:
My guess is that the OP was asking about the generalized log-likelihood
ratio test used in the Mahout recommendation framework.

That is a bit different from what you describe in that it is the log of the
ratio of two maximum likelihoods.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-test for a definition of the test used in
Mahout.

On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Jeremy Lewi<[email protected]>  wrote:

Thomas,

Are you asking a general question about log-likelihood or a specific
implementation usage in Mahout?

In general the likelihood is just a number, between 0 and 1 which
measures the probability of observing some data under some distribution.


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